Regarding the post by Mike: ... Thanks, but your reply still appears very Euro/Sri Lankan- centric, so does not really address my point. You would have to do considerably more work to demonstrate that a few European scholars were so influential that they managed to completely mess up the understand...

Don't those two suttas group a variety of meditation objects under four headings? Interesting. Could you list them? I'm not sure I understand the question, since the whole sutta is a list of objects. See the headings in this translation, for example: https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.010.s...

Sorry, I don't understand this statement... Neither do I! I am just stabbing in the dark. :D :rofl: My guess is MN 118 take the breath as the meditation object. MN10 and DN22 take four frames of reference as the meditation object. Don't those two suttas group a variety of meditation objects under f...

Hi Lal, Thank you for your interesting input. I really don't have time to read all of what you've written in detail, but I have a small comment about this: A lengthy discussion on atta/anatta started on April 2, 2017, which goes on up to p. #9. On April 16, 2017, I referred to a post at puredhamma.n...

I highly recommend you guys read the book by Kheminda Thera "Way of Buddhist meditation", he and Soma Thera were one of the original translators of the Vimuttimagga. He explains why everyone who enters the noble path, whether faith enterer or dhamma enterer from stream entry to arahant, all require...

Yamaka Sutta is about the nature of death... of an Arahant. Are you sure it is about the "death" of an Arahant? :shrug: “As I understand the Buddha’s teaching, a mendicant who has ended the defilements is annihilated and destroyed when their body breaks up, and doesn’t exist after death .” “tathāha...

That could be an interesting question. Take, for example: What do you think, Reverend Yamaka? Do you regard the Realized One as form?” “No, reverend.” “Do you regard the Realized One as feeling … perception … choices … consciousness?” “No, reverend.” https://suttacentral.net/sn22.85/en/sujato#sc8 Wh...

Hi CanadianBuddhist! Does anyone have some details on how to get rid of Makkha (depreciation of another's worth.) in the theravada canon? Basically, I am looking for pali canonical teachings about Makkha and how to overcome it? Thank you! Here is some basic information and some suttas: Dictionary de...

"Luminous, monks, is the mind.[1] And it is defiled by incoming defilements." {I,v,9} "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements." {I,v,10} https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an01/an01.049.than.html See: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=22134 for a disc...

Actually, it seems that access concentration maybe is required to fulfill purification of mind. Thank you for pointing that out. Yes, the Path of Purification, such as, for example on P345 of A Comprehensive Manual of the Abhidhamma https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=826 has the progressi...

It seems the short answer is no, insight does not require access concentration, only momentary concentration. So really we should ask how much family resemblance is there between the two. While momentary concentration may contain an equivalent amount of stillness and focus of mind, does it necessar...